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14:1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in
 the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun,
 and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,
 distributed for inheritance to them.
14:2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of
 Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on
 the other side Jordan:  but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among
 them.
14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: 
 therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to
 dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
14:5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they
 divided the land.
14:6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal:  and Caleb the
 son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that
 the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in
 Kadeshbarnea.
14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from
 Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was
 in mine heart.
14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the
 people melt:  but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
14:9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet
 have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever,
 because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty
 and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the
 children of Israel wandered in the wilderness:  and now, lo, I am this
 day fourscore and five years old.
14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent
 me:  as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both
 to go out, and to come in.
14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that
 day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that
 the cities were great and fenced:  if so be the LORD will be with me,
 then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh
 Hebron for an inheritance.
14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh
 the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of
 Israel.
14:15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a
 great man among the Anakims.  And the land had rest from war.

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15:1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their
 families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward
 was the uttermost part of the south coast.
15:2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay
 that looketh southward:
15:3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along
 to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed
 along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
15:4 From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of
 Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea:  this shall be
 your south coast.
15:5 And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. 
 And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at
 the uttermost part of Jordan:
15:6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of
 Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
15:7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so
 northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim,
 which is on the south side of the river:  and the border passed toward
 the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the
 south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem:  and the border went
 up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom
 westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of
 the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the
 border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and
 passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the
 north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
15:11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward:  and the
 border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out
 unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
15:12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. 
 This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their
 families.
15:13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children
 of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the
 city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman,
 and Talmai, the children of Anak.
15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir:  and the name of
 Debir before was Kirjathsepher.
15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him
 will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it:  and he
 gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
15:18 And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask
 of her father a field:  and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto
 her, What wouldest thou?
15:19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land;
 give me also springs of water.  And he gave her the upper springs, and the
 nether springs.
15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah
 according to their families.
15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward
 the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
15:22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
15:23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
15:25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,
15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
15:27 And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
15:28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,
15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
15:30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
15:31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon:  all the cities are
 twenty and nine, with their villages:
15:33 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
15:34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
15:36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen
 cities with their villages:
15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
15:40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
15:41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with
 their villages:
15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
15:43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
15:44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
15:45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
15:46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their
 villages:
15:47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her
 villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border
 thereof:
15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
15:49 And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir,
15:50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
15:53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
15:54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities
 with their villages:
15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
15:58 Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,
15:59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their
 villages:
15:60 Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with
 their villages:
15:61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
15:62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their
 villages.
15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of
 Judah could not drive them out:  but the Jebusites dwell with the children
 of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

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16:1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto
 the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from
 Jericho throughout mount Bethel.
16:2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of
 Archi to Ataroth,
16:3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of
 Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer:  and the goings out thereof are at the
 sea.
16:4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
 inheritance.
16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families
 was thus:  even the border of their inheritance on the east side was
 Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
16:6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side;
 and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on
 the east to Janohah;
16:7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to
 Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
16:8 The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the
 goings out thereof were at the sea.  This is the inheritance of the tribe
 of the children of Ephraim by their families.
16:9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the
 inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their
 villages.
16:10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer:  but the
 Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under
 tribute.

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17:1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the
 firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the
 father of Gilead:  because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and
 Bashan.
17:2 There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by
 their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek,
 and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for
 the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida:  these were the
 male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of
 Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters:  and these are
 the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
17:4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son
 of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us
 an inheritance among our brethren.  Therefore according to the commandment
 of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
17:5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and
 Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
17:6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: 
 and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.
17:7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth
 before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the
 inhabitants of Entappuah.
17:8 Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah:  but Tappuah on the border of
 Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;
17:9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: 
 these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh:  the coast of
 Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it
 were at the sea:
17:10 Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and
 the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in
 Issachar on the east.
17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, and
 Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the
 inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her
 towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three
 countries.
17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of
 those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
17:13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong,
 that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them
 out.
17:14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou
 given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great
 people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee
 up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the
 Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us:  and
 all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of
 iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who
 are of the valley of Jezreel.
17:17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to
 Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power:  thou
 shalt not have one lot only:
17:18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt
 cut it down:  and the outgoings of it shall be thine:  for thou shalt drive
 out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be
 strong.

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18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together
 at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there.  And the
 land was subdued before them.
18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had
 not yet received their inheritance.
18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to
 go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
18:4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe:  and I will send
 them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it
 according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts:  Judah shall abide in their
 coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on
 the north.
18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the
 description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the
 LORD our God.
18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD
 is their inheritance:  and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of
 Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which
 Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
18:8 And the men arose, and went away:  and Joshua charged them that went to
 describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it,
 and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in
 Shiloh.
18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by
 cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host
 at Shiloh.
18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD:  and there
 Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their
 divisions.
18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according
 to their families:  and the coast of their lot came forth between the
 children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
18:12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border
 went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the
 mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of
 Bethaven.
18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz,
 which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near
 the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
18:14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea
 southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the
 goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of
 the children of Judah:  this was the west quarter.
18:15 And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the
 border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of
 Nephtoah:
18:16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth
 before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of
 the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side
 of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
18:17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went
 forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and
 descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
18:18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and
 went down unto Arabah:
18:19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward:  and
 the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the
 south end of Jordan:  this was the south coast.
18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side.  This was the
 inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about,
 according to their families.
18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to
 their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz.
18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
18:23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
18:24 And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their
 villages:
18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
18:26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
18:27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and
 Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages.  This is the inheritance of
 the children of Benjamin according to their families.

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19:1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the
 children of Simeon according to their families:  and their inheritance was
 within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
19:2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and Moladah,
19:3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,
19:4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
19:5 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,
19:6 And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
19:8 And all the villages that were round about these cities to
 Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south.  This is the inheritance of the tribe
 of the children of Simeon according to their families.
19:9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of
 the children of Simeon:  for the part of the children of Judah was too much
 for them:  therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within
 the inheritance of them.
19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to
 their families:  and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid:
19:11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to
 Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam;
19:12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of
 Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia.
19:13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to
 Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;
19:14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon:  and the
 outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:
19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: 
 twelve cities with their villages.
19:16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to
 their families, these cities with their villages.
19:17 And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of
 Issachar according to their families.
19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
19:19 And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,
19:20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
19:21 And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;
19:22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and
 the outgoings of their border were at Jordan:  sixteen cities with their
 villages.
19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar
 according to their families, the cities and their villages.
19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher
 according to their families.
19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
19:26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel
 westward, and to Shihorlibnath;
19:27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to
 Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek,
 and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
19:29 And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre;
 and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea
 from the coast to Achzib:
19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob:  twenty and two cities with their
 villages.
19:31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher
 according to their families, these cities with their villages.
19:32 The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the
 children of Naphtali according to their families.
19:33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami,
 Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:
19:34 And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out
 from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and
 reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the
 sunrising.
19:35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and
 Chinnereth,
19:36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
19:37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,
19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh;
 nineteen cities with their villages.
19:39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali
 according to their families, the cities and their villages.
19:40 And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan
 according to their families.
19:41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and
 Irshemesh,
19:42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
19:43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
19:44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
19:45 And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,
19:46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
19:47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: 
 therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it,
 and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt
 therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
19:48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan
 according to their families, these cities with their villages.
19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by
 their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son
 of Nun among them:
19:50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he
 asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim:  and he built the city, and
 dwelt therein.
19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the
 son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of
 Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the
 door of the tabernacle of the congregation.  So they made an end of
 dividing the country.

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20:1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of
 refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
20:3 That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly
 may flee thither:  and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
20:4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the
 entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears
 of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them,
 and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not
 deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour
 unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation
 for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in
 those days:  then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and
 unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in
 mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of
 Judah.
20:8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer
 in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in
 Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of
 Manasseh.
20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for
 the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any
 person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the
 avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

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21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the
 priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers
 of the tribes of the children of Israel;
21:2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The
 LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the
 suburbs thereof for our cattle.
21:3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their
 inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their
 suburbs.
21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites:  and the
 children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out
 of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe
 of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families
 of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half
 tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
21:6 And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the
 tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of
 Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
21:7 The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of
 Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun,
 twelve cities.
21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities
 with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the
 tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by
 name,
21:10 Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the
 Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had:  for theirs was the
 first lot.
21:11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city
 is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round
 about it.
21:12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to
 Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
21:13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her
 suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her
 suburbs,
21:14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
21:15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and
 Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with
 her suburbs,
21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen
 cities with their suburbs.
21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained
 of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the
 tribe of Ephraim.
21:21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be
 a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
21:22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four
 cities.
21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with
 her suburbs,
21:24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
21:25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and
 Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
21:26 All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the
 children of Kohath that remained.
21:27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out
 of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her
 suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her
 suburbs; two cities.
21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh
 with her suburbs,
21:29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four cities.
21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her
 suburbs,
21:31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs,
 to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs,
 and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were
 thirteen cities with their suburbs.
21:34 And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the
 Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah
 with her suburbs,
21:35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.
21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah
 with her suburbs,
21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to
 be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
21:40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which
 were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve
 cities.
21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of
 Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them:  thus
 were all these cities.
21:43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto
 their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
21:44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he
 sware unto their fathers:  and there stood not a man of all their enemies
 before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken
 unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

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22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe
 of Manasseh,
22:2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD
 commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:
22:3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have
 kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
22:4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he
 promised them:  therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and
 unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave
 you on the other side Jordan.
22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses
 the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk
 in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and
 to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away:  and they went unto their
 tents.
22:7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given
 possession in Bashan:  but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua
 among their brethren on this side Jordan westward.  And when Joshua sent
 them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,
22:8 And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your
 tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with
 brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment:  divide the spoil of your
 enemies with your brethren.
22:9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe
 of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of
 Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead,
 to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to
 the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
22:10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land
 of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half
 tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.
22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben
 and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar
 over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage
 of the children of Israel.
22:12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation
 of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up
 to war against them.
22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to
 the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of
 Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
22:14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all
 the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their
 fathers among the thousands of Israel.
22:15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad,
 and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake
 with them, saying,
22:16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this
 that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day
 from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye
 might rebel this day against the LORD?
22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not
 cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of
 the LORD,
22:18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD?  and it
 will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will
 be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then
 pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the
 LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us:  but rebel not
 against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the
 altar of the LORD our God.
22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed
 thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel?  and that man
 perished not alone in his iniquity.
22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe
 of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,
22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he
 shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the
 LORD, (save us not this day,)
22:23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if
 to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace
 offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;
22:24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying,
 In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What
 have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
22:25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children
 of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD:  so shall your
 children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.
22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for
 burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
22:27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our
 generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him
 with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace
 offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come,
 Ye have no part in the LORD.
22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us
 or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the
 pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt
 offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day
 from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat
 offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that
 is before his tabernacle.
22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and
 heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words
 that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of
 Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of
 Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This
 day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed
 this trespass against the LORD:  now ye have delivered the children of
 Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned
 from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land
 of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought
 them word again.
22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of
 Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to
 destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar
 Ed:  for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.

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23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto
 Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and
 stricken in age.
23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their
 heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I
 am old and stricken in age:
23:3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these
 nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for
 you.
23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be
 an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I
 have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
23:5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive
 them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD
 your God hath promised unto you.
23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written
 in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the
 right hand or to the left;
23:7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you;
 neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by
 them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
23:8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
23:9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: 
 but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.
23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand:  for the LORD your God, he it
 is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your
 God.
23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of
 these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages
 with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
23:13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out
 any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps
 unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye
 perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth:  and ye
 know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath
 failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you;
 all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come
 upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring
 upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good
 land which the LORD your God hath given you.
23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he
 commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to
 them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall
 perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

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24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for
 the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for
 their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
 Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even
 Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor:  and they served
 other gods.
24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and
 led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and
 gave him Isaac.
24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau:  and I gave unto Esau mount Seir,
 to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
24:5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that
 which I did among them:  and afterward I brought you out.
24:6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt:  and ye came unto the sea; and
 the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto
 the Red sea.
24:7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the
 Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes
 have seen what I have done in Egypt:  and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long
 season.
24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the
 other side Jordan; and they fought with you:  and I gave them into your
 hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before
 you.
24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against
 Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
24:10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: 
 so I delivered you out of his hand.
24:11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho:  and the men of
 Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
 Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the
 Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before
 you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor
 with thy bow.
24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities
 which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards
 which ye planted not do ye eat.
24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: 
 and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the
 flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day
 whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were
 on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land
 ye dwell:  but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake
 the LORD, to serve other gods;
24:17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers
 out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those
 great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went,
 and among all the people through whom we passed:
24:18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the
 Amorites which dwelt in the land:  therefore will we also serve the LORD;
 for he is our God.
24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD:  for he
 is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your
 transgressions nor your sins.
24:20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and
 do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
24:21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
24:22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves
 that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him.  And they said, We are
 witnesses.
24:23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among
 you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and
 his voice will we obey.
24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a
 statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a
 great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary
 of the LORD.
24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a
 witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake
 unto us:  it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun,
 the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah,
 which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of
 the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the
 LORD, that he had done for Israel.
24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out
 of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought
 of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver:
  and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that
 pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.